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Multi Commander => Support and Feedback => Topic started by: leopoldus on October 12, 2015, 20:40:11

Title: Quick Filter - how to make MC to add asterisks automatically to a search word
Post by: leopoldus on October 12, 2015, 20:40:11

Hi,

Is there any option to make the Quick Filter default behavior mode like this:
keyword = *keyword*

That is to avoid the need to add the two asterisks manually and to make MC to presume, that any single keyword in Quick Filter field is only a part of the filename providing that the other is not stated explicitly.
I use quick filter option quite often, but I can't remember a single occasion, when I needed to use another mode, that is to search by the full filename.

Furthermore, it would be nice to add asterisk automatically between multiple keywords too. That is when I enter in Quick Filter field several words separated by spaces, MC should treat them as independent parts of filename:
quick fox brown = *quick*fox*brown* = *quick*brown*fox*

Thanks in advance!

Thanks!

Title: Re: Quick Filter - how to make MC to add asterisks automatically to a search word
Post by: Mathias (Author) on October 12, 2015, 22:03:18

ViewFilters are already doing that

If you do not write a * it will do substring matching.  so if you enter "fox" it would be like you wrote "*fox*"

Use only * if you want to do exact matching like matching beginning/end of files. Eg for matching extensions. *.jpg